It’s Final: UNC Board of Governors Votes To Close Academic Centers | WUNC. I do think this is a black mark on UNC. For years the poverty center at UNC was one of very few such centers based at a … Continue reading →

Mainstream and rightwing media have done an atrocious job discussing the legal issues implicated by President Obama's immigration policy. While rightwingers clearly believe the president's policies...
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Tomorrow, Florida Democrats will choose a candidate to challenge incumbent Governor Rick Scott. Although Scott's first term was plagued with corruption, constitutional violations, and widespread...
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(Update: Since posting this, CSPAN has put up a link to DOS Legal Adviser Harold Koh’s ASIL-sponsored, informal public conversation with his predecessor, John Bellinger, on the question of the Obama administration’s approach to…

International Human Rights and Constitutional Transformation -- New Scholarship

Professor David Sloss of Santa Clara Law School, has just posted a fascinating study and re-thinking of the relationship between U.S. constitutional race jurisprudence and international human rights law, titled How International Human Rights…

by: Leigh Goodmark, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Dr. Alesha Durfee, Associate Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University Sarah Drewer had a protective order against her husband when he shot…

Thank you, Patricia Arquette, for raising the issue of US women's equality. I agree. US women are in a sorry state. I remember the momentum to pass the women's equal rights amendment and the shock and disappointment when it did...